Polar 1.80 - Manual Update Required for Desktop Users Polar 1.80 for MacOS and Windows requires users to manually update to the latest version by manually downloading and installing the latest version. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. There was a bug in Electron >7.1.2 that broke updates for…

We have a new version of Polar out with some really interesting features. Further, since holiday season is upon us, we are offering a special 1-year deal for Polar Premium for $19.95. That’s a 50% discount on the regular price. Holiday Discount We've decided to offer a 1 year license of Polar for…

Polar 1.70 is out! Lots of big changes in this release! I know I promised you guys that we would create a video for each release but I can't create one for 1.70 just now as I'm trying to rush it out to fix an issue with Google authentication (more below). Normally emergency releases I will do a…

Dark Mode by Default - 95% Prefer Dark over Light Mode One thing that's kept coming up when talking to Polar users is that we should implement dark mode. It's quickly become one of our top requested features. I think it's about #3 right now in our new feature roadmap. The problem is that it's a lot…

Another big release is out to help prepare us for 2.0. Most of the changes here are small to moderate features and improving stability but there have also been a lot of library updates too which were important. Prompting for Premium and Locked Features One of the big changes in this release is…

Building Polar's Product/Market Fit Engine For the past month or so I've been revamping Polar's product-market-fit engine to help understand our users and to prioritize feature requests. More importantly, it's helping me build a product for the long-term based on science rather than whim. Wouldn't…

Polar 1.50 was just released and will be rolling out to everyone in a staged over the next week. This is one of the biggest releases we've had in a long time and will be the foundation for 2.0. What's In This Release Now let's get into what we've changed in this release. Improved Incremental…

Polar 1.40 - Tags in the sidebar, Drag and Drop Folders, and more! Polar 1.40 is now available. This release includes a number of new features upgrades and stability improvements. First, I should apologize for the slower release cycle lately. I've been working on a number of internal refactors to…

Overview Since we shipped Polar we've been listening to feedback from our users as to the default behavior and functionality of web capture. Web capture (or just capture) is what we call converting an HTML page to a format that can be persisted and used within Polar. This code started off as an…

The Future of Polar Cloud Sync We're going to be changing some features in the 'local' mode version of Polar and some new cloud features won't be available in this mode. I've tried to keep Polar's local mode as full featured as possible but I've decided that this just isn't possible moving forward…